Twitter introduced in June 2020 voice tweets – also known as Audio Spaces – a new way to share ideas or opinions that allow the creator to express themselves comfortably, while the user can capture the idea or the tone without misinterpreting their words, such as it happens a lot with text tweets. Now, the social network has made a small change to this feature and has added subtitles in several languages.
Subtitles are available in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, and Indonesian. Twitter, through algorithms, will generate the subtitles automatically. The subtitles will be available for those voice tweets that are shared from now on. Unfortunately, they will not reach those previously published.
The function, yes, is very new and could present some bugs , but they will be corrected in the future. “Although it is still early and we know it will not be perfect at first, it is one of the many steps we are taking to expand and strengthen accessibility throughout our service, and we look forward to continuing our journey to create a truly inclusive service,” said Gurpreet Kaur. , head of Twitter accessibility (via The Verge).
Subtitles in voice tweets: so you can activate them
To see the subtitles in a voice tweet , the user must click on the 'CC' button that will appear at the top of the screen. This accessibility tool is very useful for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as for those users who prefer not to listen to the audio, for example, because they are in a public place or with a lot of background noise.
The company recently launched the ability to choose who can reply to a tweet already posted. This function was already available on the social network, but only for those publications that had not yet been shared.
Additionally, Twitter is also working on new features that will come to the social network in the future. One of them is the possibility to show full images in the feed. Until now, the photos published in the tweets have an image proportion that does not show all the content. The user, therefore, must click on the image for it to be fully displayed.
